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Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Werner Price (Unpublished)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2016/07/19
This is a reflective piece on learning about other cultures through immersion. I have not done this in depth myself. However, I do know others that have done this quite in-depth. So, I write this from a point of semi-ignorance.
If you look or if I look at the other cultures in the world, I can notice some commonalities with my own Canadian culture, which is limited in perspective. Those commonalities are part of the shared human experience with, for instance, rights of birth, adolescence, adulthood, partnership, parenting, old-age, and death.
There are various rituals around us. There are even differences in clothing that people wear for those distinct moments in life. In fact, those distinct periods in life are culturally associated to the extent that people expect other citizens of America to wear those clothes.
It’s a sense of the scare ‘common sense’ nature of the social cultural immersion. The one that you have to been born into. That includes me. Think about a business dress for an adult professional woman. Think about a suit and tie and black dress shoes for an adult professional manner.
These are expectations. These also reflect commonsense cultural messages about what equates to adulthood and what does not in terms of dress code. So there’s a sense of cultural decorum. Cultural immersion can come in other aspects to.
People cannot we just look at the clothing through photos and reading articles. Appeal Commerse himself entirely into the culture. One other trusted clothes writer of the blog is Sara Corry. She does a tremendous job writing a lot about her work in Ghana.
She lives and works with Ghanaians. She might even consider herself one, default citizen at this point with the immersion. I find her story fascinating. I find the people that are around her that she describes fascinating too because it’s an entirely different way of life in a lot of ways, but somewhere in others, and shows a window into a different perspective on life.
I appreciate that that message that she brings to the foreignness.
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